 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 504 pages
...languishing]? slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 36C Where Uenham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art,...chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...languishingly slow ; And praise the easy vigour of a line, 360 Where Deuham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have Icam'd to dance. Tie not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 320 pages
...with so much life and ease, You think 'tis nature, and a knack to please ; ' But ease in writing flows from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance,' Who, though the home was up, delighted §ate ' ltwrd, noted, answer'd, as in foll dehate . In all hut... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...or languishingly slow; And praise the easy vigour of a line, Where Denham's strength, and Waller's swe'etness join. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour ;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must be easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance; As those move easiest who have learned to dance*." " The best . performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most labour;... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...mistake of supposing that easy writing must he easy reading. It is quite the contrary. As Pope says, " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest wlio have learned to dancea." " The hest performances," says Melmoth, " have generally cost the most... | |
 | A. A - 1841 - 160 pages
...composition which has been carried to perfection in Pope and Gray, and which fully illustrates the lesson. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learnt to dance. Carew appears to have led the way for Waller in this style of composition. Milton's... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1824 - 604 pages
...governed by our own feelings. Hence, he appears in some passages, if taken- abstractedly, to think that " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, " As those move easiest who have learned to dance ;" and in others to reject art and authority altogether. It is clear, however, from... | |
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 
